EUPLATYRHOPALUS. 



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on each a little before the apex (meeting at the suture), yellowish 

 ferruginous ; head moderately large, antennae with the first joint 

 somewhat long proportionally, and the club elongate, about twice 

 as long as broad, with the sides subparallel and the base obliquely 

 truncate ; the apex and the internal basal augle are rounded, and 

 the external basal angle is excised and sharply produced and 

 denticulate ; the whole margins of the club are acute, and the 

 upper side is moderately and the underside more convex, while 

 the base is depressed and excavate on its upper side, the whole 

 surface except the broad excavation being very finely granulose 

 and villose ; pronotum cordiform, a little widened at the base^ 

 not transverse; elytra rather long and parallel-sided, with the 

 shoulders somewhat strongly produced and more thickly set with 

 short setae than the sides ; legs moderate, tibia? sharply produced 

 externally at the apex ; underside reddish castaneous. 



Length 7 millim. 



Burma [Captain Comotto). 



Genus EUPLATYRHOPALUS. 



Euplatyrhopalus, Desneux, Genera Insectorum (Wytsman), Paussidas, 

 1905, p. 18. 



Platyrhopalus, Westwood (ex parte), Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xvi, 

 p. 654, et auctt. 



Form elongate-oblong, depressed ; head transverse, considerably 

 narrower than the pronotum ; eyes large and prominent, but not 

 occupying the whole of the sides, as the temples are visible behind 

 them and project a little on either side ; antennae two-jointed, 

 the first subquadrate, the second large, flat and irregular, the 

 inner margin being simple and the outer margin very deeply 

 cut out, leaving two large and long sharp teeth ; maxillary palpi 

 large, 4-jointed, with the first joint small, the second very large 

 and produced internally at the apex into a more or less distinct 

 tooth, and the third and fourth very small, the latter being more 

 or less pointed at its apex ; labial palpi rather large, with the first 

 joint very small and the two others much longer, cylindrical, the 

 third being acuminate ; pronotum large, transverse, bilobed but 

 not divided, the anterior portion crescent-shaped, with the 

 posterior angles produced, the posterior portion forming a short 

 neck ; elytra somewhat long, with the shoulders prominent and 

 extended towards the posterior angles of the anterior part of the 

 pronotum; legs rather long and slender, apex of tibi i produced 

 externally into a sharp point, internally furnished with spurs ; 

 tarsi moderately large. 



Mange. India, Sumatra, and Java. 



It seems strange that the species forming this genus should so 

 long have been left under Platyrhojialus, for they differ from the 

 genus in several important respects, and agree (both superficially 



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